ABSTRACT
‘Planning in Crisis’ could, of course, have been the title of any conference held in Britain on this most misunderstood of subjects since at least the fourteenth century. The County, together with its district counterparts in the City of Grotton, Dunromin, Golden Delicious, Grimethwaite and Cloggley, developed new approaches to planning, the like of which had never been seen before and may well never be seen again. The Conference of 1667 considered the planning implications of the Great Fire of Grotton, which has been largely ignored by scholars, who have always been more interested in the headline-grabbing blaze in London a year earlier. The Planning in Crisis Conference of 1919 was held in the shadow of war. The profession’s response to the conflagration was to advocate a new town, and Ebenezer Howard turned the first sod at the Sleightley Garden Suburb during the conference.
